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Meanings of sexual fetishism in English

Russian
ретифизм
Portuguese
fetichismo
Spanish
fetichismo
Catalan
fetitxisme sexual
Wikidata

Sexual arousal a person receives from an object or situation.

        ретифизм
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        Examples for "fetish"
        Examples for "fetish"
        1
        With him, sincerity in art was a fetish; in life, a superfluity.
        The Moon out of Reach
        2
        Hence the symbolic use of leather-primitiveanimal hide-forwhips and fetish clothing.
        Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
        3
        On the salvage of a fetish than the winning of the fight.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916
        4
        For a couple of years there, I had a major blimp fetish.
        Wired
        5
        She picked up a bear fetish-itsright paw raised, miniature claws exposed.
        Wicked lovely
        1
        Social hygiene fetishism translated readily into pressure for measures to improve 'racial hygiene'.
        Hitler 1936 - 1945: Nemesis
        2
        As to fetishism in the Vedas the opinions of the learned are divided.
        Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
        3
        He let no opportunity slip of jeering at fetishism in art.
        Jean-Christophe, Volume I
        4
        Early on, his OnlyFans page was a bacchanal of foot fetishism.
        Wired
        5
        Other outfits took a safer route, but still with a nod to fetishism.
        Reuters
        1
        Primitive man was no more a fetishist than is the modern Catholic.
        The Necessity of Atheism
        2
        A fetishist's someone who's got a fixation on one thing only.
        Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
        3
        Lester was the rapist; Al was the fetishist who participated vicariously.
        Full dark, no stars
        4
        He was a pyromaniac, a fetishist, a masochist, a sadist and a sex killer.
        The Complete Jack the Ripper
        5
        Black leather, patent leather, corsets, and fetishist whips and sex toys in a drawer.
        The girl who played with fire
        Usage of sexual fetishism in English
        1
        This new version mutes the sexual fetishism that interested previous film-makers, and creates an ending which is exasperatingly ambiguous, as well as rushed.
        The Guardian